Chapter Seventy-Five: The Situation Reversed
Kong Wen came in and saw me and Zang Butian sitting by the tea table, and said with a smile: "Amitabha." Brother Dao, I haven't seen you for a long time, but are you okay?"
I bowed my head and didn't answer, just put a cup of tea on the tea table.
Kongwen didn't care, and said: "This tea looks like a good tea of the year, and you must taste it well." ”
As he spoke, he sat down in a chair next to the teacup.
"Who is this?" Kong Wen asked, looking at Zang Butian.
"Under the surname Zang, a friend of the Taoist. We've seen it before in Longhu Mountain. ”
When he heard the word Dragon and Tiger Mountain, his face suddenly changed. However, it was only fleeting, and he quickly returned to normal, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be the leader of the Zang League, disrespectful, disrespectful." ”
Kongwen looked for a few more topics one after another, but never got a response.
A long silence ensued.
I stared at the ring scar on his head, never saying a word. Zang Butian played with the rosary in his hand on the side, and did not speak.
He knew I was waiting for him to get down to business first.
At this point, he put away his expression and said, "Brother Dao, don't say dark words in front of the Ming." You have a very dangerous place here, and I have come all the way this time to risk being removed from the Buddhist sect to report the news. ”
He must not have known that I had been to Tiantai Mountain at this time, and thought that I was disgusted by the recent boiling dispute over Buddhism and Taoism.
"You also know that there were two chaos in Tiantai Mountain a few days ago. Fortunately, I went, and when I saw that it was the Taoist of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, I thought of the friendship between us, so I tried my best to suppress it. And as far as I know, this chaos was caused by your Dongyue Temple. ”
"Oh?"
"According to my investigation, the person who disturbed Tiantai Mountain this time was a person from the Zhengyi family who participated in the Buddhist debate hundreds of years ago. Their souls have been sealed for hundreds of years, but a few days ago, they were released by someone who didn't know how, in order to breathe a sigh, they first possessed the eight elders, and the second time they possessed the four pilgrims, turning Tiantai Mountain upside down. ”
The abbot of Tiantai Mountain was also ashamed because of this, and he heard it yesterday that he had passed away after taking poison. ”
"This Dongyue Temple has been safe and sound for hundreds of years, who knows that as soon as you came to serve as the abbot, there was this incident, and now it is rumored everywhere that you intend to let go of the souls of those few people, and drive them to Tiantai Mountain to make trouble, so there will be a large number of Buddhist monks coming soon, you still have to make plans early. ”
"In this way, I would like to thank Master Kongwen for coming all the way to report the news. But I don't know how to deal with it?" I asked.
"After thinking about it again and again, the only way to do it now is to take back the souls of those twelve people and still seal them. But it is easier said than done to subdue them now. The Heavenly Master's Mansion sent three high masters, but they were still defeated. At present, only the Dinghai Divine Bead or the Dust Sword passed down by the Buddha of the Burning Lamp can subdue it. ”
"But I don't know where these two treasures are now, if one of them, coupled with the urging of my Buddhist exercises, it will be at your fingertips, and a storm can be resolved invisibly. ”
If I hadn't been to Tiantai Mountain a few days ago and understood the ins and outs of the matter, I would have been moved by his righteous and awe-inspiring words.
Since ancient times, the people who have been traitors have a mouth like a river and a lotus tongue. Throughout the ages, I don't know how many people have been deceived by the rhetoric of such treacherous people.
I was about to speak, when Zang Butian glanced at me and said, "Dinghaizhu is here." If the master can use this treasure to resolve the grievances of the Buddha, then he is not willing to give the treasure to the master. It's also a gift from me to the master. ”
When I heard this, I was overjoyed. said: "Amitabha, the master of the Zang League is really a righteous man, a true hero. I, Buddhism, and all sentient beings are grateful. ”
"But I have one condition, I need to release the three high masters first, so as not to blame the Heavenly Master for Dongyue Temple. I wonder if the master may meet this condition?" Zang Butian asked.
"This ......" Kongwen pondered for a while, and said, "I will intercede on this, it must not be difficult to do." But can you let the poor monk see where Dinghaizhu is?"
Zang Butian said: "What's so difficult about this, when I came, I had already stored my belongings in the place of the Taoist chief. Command someone to fetch it. ”
When I heard this, I ordered Shanxian to go to the secret room to fetch Dinghaizhu. and deliberately explained that it was in the cabinet at the third door of the secret room in the east wing.
In a moment, Dinghaizhu was retrieved.
When Kong Wen saw this, his eyes lit up. said "good, good, good" three times in a row, and when he wanted to reach out to take it, he was naturally avoided by Zang Butian turning around to see the transparency of the light.
Kongwen's hands stretched out in the air shrank back.
"If the master can keep his promise to put the three of them back first, Ding Haizhu will give it to the master with both hands. Zang Butian turned around, handed over Dinghaizhu to Shan Xian again, and put it back in place.
In addition to being overjoyed, he didn't care about being polite, and said that he would go back immediately to negotiate the release of people, and then got up and said goodbye.
It was night, and all the people had gone to sleep. Zang Butian accompanied me to drink tea in the tea room. Seeing that the time had passed, I suddenly heard movement from the east wing.
Zang Butian said: "The fish has been hooked. ”
After a while, Zheng Yue Mao Jie escorted two people over.
Entering the tea room, Zheng Mao and the two pushed the two forward, and the two fell to their knees.
Zang Butian said: "Lift their masks. ”
When he opened it, one of them was the leader of Tiantai Mountain, and the other was the beautiful woman who had followed Kongwen in Longhu Mountain before!
The harvest was unexpected. I thought that after catching a few monks, they could exchange with each other, so as not to affect the reputation of Buddhism.
In this way, there is no need to go through a lot of work.
Ordered the woman to call Kongwen and tell him about the treasure thief being caught. The woman was very stubborn at first, but after half an hour, her thin-skinned and tender knees hit the ground, and she couldn't stand it.
Helpless, he picked up the phone and cried and told the empty news.
In view of the fact that they were able to break free from the rope and escape from the rope last time they were in Longhu Mountain, they arranged for people to guard in shifts this time to ensure that there would be no mistakes.
The so-called concern is chaos. Everyone in this world has weaknesses, some people value wealth, and some people value sex. If you can find it, you will be able to hit it in one hit.
Whether or not the situation can be reversed is all up to this woman at the moment.
If you ignore this person, then you have to make another plan.
Early the next morning, he ordered someone to use a video camera to record the confessions of the two people one by one, just in case.
At noon, the empty news came.
Seeing that he didn't bring the three Dao Masters back, he ordered Shan Xian to block him out of the door and not to enter.
It took more than an hour to do so, but to no avail.
Shan Xian came back to report that the news had gone, and Zang Butian ordered the woman to continue the call.
I went back and forth like this a few times, and it was already nighttime.
The woman had gone from crying on the phone to swearing more and more viciously.